Ms Jacinta Hastings:

From a school's perspective, the Deputy is quite right, sometimes there is a slight cautionary note if there is an issue, in particular an eating disorder issue. The process would be the school would flag it with the parents first and, if necessary, the psychological services are called in. From our perspective going into schools as an external agency we work very closely with the school before we go in to make sure about any sensitivities or concerns they have. We have developed quite a lot of materials. Our colleague is our youth development officer. We are cautious about going into schools and not teaching too much about the issue or the behaviours. What you would be looking at for the schools is to give them confidence about bringing in an external agency, organising a workshop of about one and a half hour's duration and allowing that space to explore the potential contributory or underlying factors such as body image, low self-esteem, media literacy or maybe peer pressure. They are the areas that we look at. There is a subtlety in bringing eating disorders into the school space to ensure that the outcomes are safe for the students. We have developed for primary schools the Happy to be Me programme which is teacher-delivered with the children. It is looking at diversity. In the secondary school we have the #MoreThanASelfie which again is looking at social media and the influence of social media and also the one-and-a-half hour workshop that would be appropriate for the student body, the teacher-student body or even the full school, including parents.